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This should be retitled 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 14:56 GMT

"El Reg spoils fun of F1 fans"

Seriously, how often do we get a chance to see what the megalomaniac team principals are REALLY thinking / doing? :(

SpoilSports !! 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:00 GMT

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Of course, following our conversation, the document was edited with the secret information removed. ®

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SpoilSports.. Now you made me go looking for it !!

If MacLaren can be fined $100m for alledged personal use... 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:13 GMT

...then how much will the FIA fine themselves for distributing the information to Every F1 team out there, and everyone else.

Next season 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:21 GMT

Should be interesting with 22 Ferraris on the grid.

Figures 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:26 GMT

Never could trust those cry baby Brits...

re: spoilsports 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:44 GMT

i think the least the Reg can do is make a copy of the unedited version available for us all to read

Damn, curse ye! 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:44 GMT

I wanna bling up me corsa wid dat wikkid nfo innit.

where can we get a copy ?? 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 15:57 GMT

Anyone know where can get a copy of the uncensored version ??.

thanks

Unedited version 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 16:07 GMT

Can be found alive and well here:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2007/09/20/ferrari-and-mclaren-secrets-leaked-in-fia-document/

It's really quite dull folks!

Also, this was removed well before El Reg had anything to do with it, or at least well before El Reg was reporting it...

Where to find it 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 16:11 GMT

Perhaps a Google for wmsc-transcript-13-09-2007.pdf will bring up results?

Not deleted yet... 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 16:18 GMT

Well it still seems to be here:

http://www.rtl.nl/(/sport/rtl_gp/formule1/nieuws/)/sport/rtl_gp/components/formule1/070919_transcripties_mclaren.xml

You guys sux ....! 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 17:07 GMT

I have been reading El Reg for 7 years and never posted before - but couldn't you have mirrored the PDF?? Exclusive my b*******ks :o(

The reg provides answer to questions 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 18:01 GMT

I asked a question of how much the chief engineer gets paid at maclaren as he couldn't afford his own photocopier in an earlier article. Thanks to the reg (and the annonymous poster above) I now know. Thanks.

I've got this valve 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 19:13 GMT

......and I honestly don't know where I should put it.

If only there was some form of document out there giving me a clue as to the best way to use it.

Something delayed, but then gradual...

Of course you realise... 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 19:19 GMT

... now *all* F1 teams will be reading Ferrari's secrets, so they'll all be stripped of their Championship points, thus *guaranteeing* Ferrari another win!

FIA: Ferrari International Assistance.

Freud 

Posted Thursday 20th September 2007 23:13 GMT

Oh, someone needs Freud: http://autoinsight.blogosfere.it/2007/09/fia-si-stenda-sul-lettino-di-freud.html

Help! 

Posted Friday 21st September 2007 07:56 GMT

Press F1 for help!

Vulture on a leash? 

Posted Friday 21st September 2007 08:28 GMT

Very disapointed in el reg.

I recall the same thing happened in the gary mckinnon case when all the IP's of US military establishments were published... El reg Linked to that. Somehow F1 should be more secure in El Reg's eyes?? it is in the public domain so link to it!

In case you missed it its here:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/wmsc-transcript-13-09-2007.pdf

FIA Just Really Like Red 

Posted Friday 21st September 2007 08:38 GMT

It's almost as if Ferrari leaked this technical information themselves so that they might later lodge some kind of complai... hey, wait a minute!

Commercial opportunity 

Posted Friday 21st September 2007 17:31 GMT

Sounds like a great new niche market for Adobe to enter, release a version of the software for redacting that solves this :)

Un-blacked out version, in HTML can be found here... 

Posted Friday 21st September 2007 22:04 GMT

http://www.finditnow.org.uk/fia.aspx